Improvement in grates for stoves



, 7 JOHN CHURCHMAN] Emprovement in Grates for Stoves, &c-.-

A Patented May 16,187 1.

Witnesses: I

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JoHN OHURGHMAN, or. BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0, HIMSELF ANDcAEBoN STOVE COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 114,762, dated May 16, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRATES FOR STOVES, 80c.

To'all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OHN OHURCHMAN, of thecity and county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Stove, Range, andParlor-Grates,'. and -I hereby declare the following to be a full andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing forming part of this specification, in

which- Figure 1 is a fi'ont'clevation-of a grate withits several partsin place. Figure 2 is a perspective side view of the same, with thedetached or'movable portion hereinafter mentionedremoved, leaving anopening in the front.

Figure 3' is a detached or removable portion of the grate, forming agate, slide, or stopper, and which may be made in any other desiredform, for purposes .and uses hereinafter mentioned.-

The nature or essence of my invention consists-in an improved method ofconstructing grates of the kind known as basket-grates, either whenformed all of one entire casting or piece or when constructed of severalparts, and either as applied to stoves or ranges or to other generalpurposes and uses. v

This mode of constructing grates is such that the upright bars usuallyforming the front part of the grate, instead of being severally attachedto and forming continuous bars with those of the bottom part, as

p is usual in grates of the class named, are separated therefrom by alateral opening, A A, 11g. 1, formcd'by the horizontal bottom bar B of.the front portion and r the front bar 0 of the bottom portion of thegrate, the object of which, and which I- claim as one of myimprovements, is to allow of the passage of the poker, in cleaning ordressing the fire, horizontally over and along the top surface of thegrate bottom instead of, or as well as, between the bars, as usuallypracticed, by means of which the fire is much more easily,- quickly, andeffectually cleaned. f

It is also constructed with a detached or removable portion, fig. 3,which may be made of any desired form, and which, when removed, leavesan opening, D, fig. 2, the object and purpose of which are to allow theslag, slate, and other impurities in the fuel to be drawn out from thebottom of the fire without materially disturbing the same or checkingthe combustion, the said gate or stopper being kept in place during theordinary poking of the fire.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Pateuti Thegrate described, provided with openings 1) and A and the removable part2:, the latter being adapted to close the opening D, as described.

JO. OHUROHMAN, [L. s.]

' Witnesses:

- JAs. STERLING,

DANL. P. NAYLOR.

